Your best non fiction books?

Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing, about the Troubles in Northern Ireland and Empire of Pain about the deceitful pharmaceutical company Perdue Pharma.

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik

The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes

Just finished Shadow Divers, from a recommendation on here. Really Good.

A city on mars: can we settle space, should we, and have we really thought this through? by Kelly & Zach Weinersmith

Salt: a world history by Mark Kurlansky was pretty interesting, and he has a book about Cod too

ISAAC’S STORM by Erik Larson was gripping. I keep rereading it in fascination

I love nonfiction!! This will be a long list haha 

When breath becomes air by Paul Kalanithi-young surgeon in training suddenly gets diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, his memoir before he passes

An Imperfect Offering by James Orbinski-memoir of the doctor that founded the Canadian branch of doctors without borders and his humanitarian work abroad

Crying in Hmart by Michelle Zauner-memoir of a half korean woman who lost her mom and how her relationship with korean food changes

Know my name by chanel miller-memoir by the woman in the brock turner case (she’s a really good writer but wow it’s a heavy book)

Educated by Tara Westover-memoir of a lady who had religious survivalist parents so she basically educated herself enough to eventually go to college since they didn’t put her in school nor was she homeschooled

I’m glad my mom died by jeanette mccurdy-she exposes so much stuff about the behind the scenes of icarly

Elderhood by Louise Aronson, written about the state of geriatric care in the US (she’s a geriatrician)

Careless people by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a Facebook exposé

The same author, Oliver Sachs, who wrote The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat wrote:

“Awakenings”

It’s a fascinating nonfiction book. It will shock the heck out of you — most frightening of all is that this condition still occurs!

In the 1920’s and ‘30’s (and still happening now but rarely), many people (so many people that special hospitals were made just for them) became catatonic for life, frozen in time, unable to move but still fully aware of everything around them, after having the flu.

Decades later Dr. Sachs finds a way to “cure” them, but the cure doesn’t last and the cured patients slowly revert back to being catatonic, and they know they’re going back to that frozen-in-time state.

Great book, easy to read even though it’s a case study of 20 individual patients.

The book was made into a movie, but the book has more details on the medical condition.

Feature film starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner and John Heard. Released December 1990 by Columbia Pictures. Awakening was nominated for three Academy Awards.

The Hellfire Club-Daniel P. Mannix

The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking-Olivia Laing

Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

American Kingpin,
Bad Blood
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace.
Into thin air
The sun does shine by Anthony Ray Hinton
The Mastermind (Evan Ratliff)
Anything by Jon Ronson
Red Notice by Bill Browder
Patriot (Navalnys book)